I have decided to finally act on a dream of mine to pursue a creative hobby, and I hope to eventually get to a point where I am making either webcomics or youtube videos.
Unlike a good number of youtubers already, I am fucking poor, and adobe is the gold standard of editing software and they know it, hence why it’s so overpriced.
I would happy to hear of any alternatives.
I was ready to leave Adobe but then they added content-aware fill and I haven’t been able to replace it.
Pirate the industry standard software
All these open source alternatives are great, but you’re going to have a harder time finding tutorials etc simply due to a smaller userbase
I don’t know shit about video editing.
For image editing:
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Gimp is for editing or combining photographs. The stuff you find on subreddits birdswitharms, animalswithnoneck, and hybridanimals. You can paint in it, but it sucks.
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Krita is for painting. Use when you would use IRL paints, but don’t want a mess.
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Inkscape is for vector graphics. Things with crisp lines, cartoony things, clipart, that sort of stuff. It has a slightly longer learning curve than the others, but once you learn it, it is by far the easiest and fastest for this specific kind of work.
Blender has features to be an After Effects alternate - so could be good instead of Premiere as well but I haven’t really tried Photopea, GIMP instead of Photoshop
